Mid-Morning Art Thread

Rosemary in Thought
Raphael Soyer

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:30 AM (JnEe8)

2
A real dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 06, 2025 09:30 AM (tgvbd)

3 And she's thinking "he can see up my skirt".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 09:31 AM (ExV1e)

4
"Nothing's wrong! Do whatever you want."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 06, 2025 09:31 AM (tgvbd)

5 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:32 AM (JnEe8)

6 "you said no butt stuff."

Posted by: cmeat at October 06, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

7 Resting Bitch Face - In Thought

Fixt

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 06, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Unfortunate shading in the under the dress area.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 06, 2025 09:32 AM (kurEY)

9 Focus.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 06, 2025 09:32 AM (0E2/4)

10 Sure taking her thyme doing it!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)

11 That's the "if you ever paid attention to me, you'd know what's wrong!" look.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (JnEe8)

12 She looks like everything that is wrong with Hollywood.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (aTgV0)

13 Art is a mirror that reflects what is in your mind.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (JhzmS)

14 Alternate title: I Want to Speak to your Manager
Wouldn't hang , like the colors , but that mug. Nah
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (pwtJC)

15 Alternate title - "I Don't Believe You."

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (wtgMO)

16 Great color choices.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (/2DkY)

17 Oh boy. She knows what you did.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

18 I wouldn't even know how to get the part in my hair that high.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:34 AM (aTgV0)

19 Well, it's Monday.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 06, 2025 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

20 Rosemary stewing.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 09:34 AM (GbwPZ)

21 "you said no butt stuff."
Posted by: cmeat

Agujero quivicado! Agujero equivicado!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:34 AM (JnEe8)

22 Someone's in trouble.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 06, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

23 Nice color contrast of the green and red.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 06, 2025 09:35 AM (PFs9e)

24 Where's her baby?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 06, 2025 09:35 AM (ynpvh)

25 >>I wouldn't even know how to get the part in my hair that high.

1. bedhead
2. teasing

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 09:35 AM (GbwPZ)

26 No smile a little smile for me, Rosemary?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 06, 2025 09:35 AM (OT+cA)

27 She looks like she might scream in her car on Tik Tok.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:35 AM (aTgV0)

28 The artist had a twin brother, Moses, who was also a painter.

She's not Rosemary Woodhouse, either before or after her Vidal Sassoon haircut.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at October 06, 2025 09:35 AM (BHrzb)

29 Alternate title:

"What Did He Mean I Look Like a Half-Brownie/Half-Girl Scout?

This is My Cutest Outfit!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 06, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

30 She's not hitting you, or shitting on the bed....she's totally a 1!!!

Posted by: Johnny Depp at October 06, 2025 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

31 Definitely would not want this one in my house, though obviously well executed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 06, 2025 09:36 AM (e7sUp)

32 Karen wants to see the manager.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at October 06, 2025 09:36 AM (OgrJK)

33 I think that she has just been told that she can't compete in women's volleyball anymore.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at October 06, 2025 09:36 AM (0nHVk)

34 "Oh boy. She knows what you did.
Posted by: Bulg"

Yes.

She definitely knows what you did.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:37 AM (aTgV0)

35 13 Art is a mirror that reflects what is in your mind.
_-_
See?

Posted by: Don in SoCo, who replies to his own comments at October 06, 2025 09:37 AM (JhzmS)

36 Looks to have been painted with a palette knife

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 06, 2025 09:37 AM (wtgMO)

37 "You're supposed to know what's wrong, I shouldn't have to tell you."

Posted by: Josephistan at October 06, 2025 09:37 AM (y9ksN)

38 Is that a neck tattoo or just shadows?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (JnEe8)

39 Moron. I have to reload the friggin’ dishwasher, AGAIN!

Posted by: Raspail at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (qLV8A)

40 Alternate title:

"

arsley,Sage, and Thyme, Those Bitches!, Took Off With the Cute Guys and Left Me Here Alone"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

41 She does look disagreeable, but I'll bet she cleans up pretty good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (omVj0)

42 27 She looks like she might scream in her car on Tik Tok.
Posted by: eleven

Is she at the "I hate men" stage, or the "where have all the good men gone" stage, or the "I never really wanted kids, enjoy my wine, cats, career, and freedom" stage?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

43 38 it's a beautiful day to hide the knives.

Posted by: cmeat at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (R11M+)

44 She's pissed the artist pushed her skirt up for the pose.

Posted by: GWB at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (Dvcu+)

45 I have seen that face plenty of times.

What did I do this time?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 06, 2025 09:39 AM (cYBz/)

46 Love grows where my Rosemary goes….’

Posted by: Eromero at October 06, 2025 09:39 AM (jgmnb)

47 Self reflection on her chunky thighs

Posted by: Lars at October 06, 2025 09:39 AM (Jy6Eg)

48 You know what you did.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 09:39 AM (jDBeC)

49 Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 06, 2025 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

Or maybe she was just having a bad day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 06, 2025 09:39 AM (PFs9e)

50 Rosemary in thought about where her next fix is coming from.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (kurEY)

51 Alternate Title:

"Five Seconds Before Amber Heard Shits in Your Bed"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (iJfKG)

52 I'm not talking to you, after what you did in the dream I had last night!

Posted by: Josephistan at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (y9ksN)

53 The artist told her it would only take an hour to do the portrait.

It's been 3.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (Q4IgG)

54 Ginger?

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

55 the ample posterior provides for a minimum c cup.

Posted by: cmeat at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (R11M+)

56 If looks could kill.
I've seen this movie before.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

57 >>Is she at the "I hate men" stage, or the "where have all the good men gone" stage, or the "I never really wanted kids, enjoy my wine, cats, career, and freedom" stage?

The "TRUMP IS LITERALLY KILLING US, YOU GUYZ" stage

Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 09:40 AM (GbwPZ)

58 Definitely would not want this one in my house, though obviously well executed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 06, 2025 09:36 AM (e7sUp)
----
Hang it over the toilet in the guest bathroom. Guarantee they'll never be back.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 06, 2025 09:41 AM (4S2yc)

59 "Is she at the "I hate men" stage, or the "where have all the good men gone" stage, or the "I never really wanted kids, enjoy my wine, cats, career, and freedom" stage?
Posted by: Moron Analyst"

She looks early stage. High hair.

Impossible hair part stage.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:42 AM (aTgV0)

60 She looks like she slept in that outfit.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 06, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

61 Like she's only getting started.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:42 AM (aTgV0)

62 She does have a sensual mouth though. And red hair, my kryptonite, so . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 09:42 AM (omVj0)

63 Half Wit - a limerick

As for all of the wisdom she sought
Rose got rather less than she bought
Only semi-educated
She sat and coontemplated
Partially sage, Rosemary in thought

Posted by: muldoon at October 06, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

64
Sure taking her thyme doing it!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 06, 2025 09:33 AM (GbwPZ)

________

Spice puns. I cayenne believe it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 06, 2025 09:42 AM (tgvbd)

65 I like his work. Russian-born Jewish fellow. Did a nice painting of actress Maureen Stapleton in 1968.

Posted by: Some Nudes, Too at October 06, 2025 09:43 AM (oftw2)

66
Thunder thighs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 06, 2025 09:43 AM (tgvbd)

67 She does have the thighs that men are dumb for.

Myself included.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:44 AM (aTgV0)

68 Karen McAwfl

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 09:44 AM (wrRTB)

69
No hint of early morning dew!. Pvt. Joker's boss will not be happy

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 06, 2025 09:44 AM (x0n13)

70 Alternate title:

"Those Guys Are All Jerks! Next Time I Need to Wear My Falsies When I Try Flash Dating. 'Pancake City, My Ass!!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 06, 2025 09:44 AM (iJfKG)

71 Self reflection on her chunky thighs
Posted by: Lars at October 06, 2025

***
Yeah, I noticed those too.

All seriousness aside, the artist has really captured her attractive face and hair, and the arms-folded "What lie are you going to tell me now?" stance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 09:44 AM (omVj0)

72 "Spice puns. I cayenne believe it."

Great, now everyone will start peppering the comments with salty jokes.

Posted by: PabloD at October 06, 2025 09:44 AM (mSUOn)

73 63 Half Wit - a limerick

As for all of the wisdom she sought
Rose got rather less than she bought
Only semi-educated
She sat and contemplated
Partially sage, Rosemary in thought
_-_
Wahoo! No thread is complete without a limerick. I like it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, who replies to his own comments at October 06, 2025 09:45 AM (JhzmS)

74 Posted by: muldoon at October 06, 2025 09:42 AM (/iMjX)

Nice, but you missed time.

Posted by: GWB at October 06, 2025 09:45 AM (Dvcu+)

75 Self reflection on her chunky thighs
Posted by: Lars

Rosemary has an 18 1/2-inch thigh gap.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 09:45 AM (77rzZ)

76 Kina sorta detailed but not what I am looking for

Posted by: Skip at October 06, 2025 09:45 AM (xatjc)

77 Hang it over the toilet in the guest bathroom. Guarantee they'll never be back.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Those eyes! They follow me!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:45 AM (JnEe8)

78 Best I can say is it’s better than a Munch painting.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 09:46 AM (EYmYM)

79 Would not paint on the side of my Free Candy van.

Posted by: toby928 at October 06, 2025 09:46 AM (jDBeC)

80 Alt title: "Teenage Daughter"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 06, 2025 09:46 AM (UJ6vE)

81
An’ Tar Baby, he don’t say nothin’…

Posted by: Raspail at October 06, 2025 09:46 AM (qLV8A)

82 "Who's this Mom person texting you?"

Posted by: Tonypete at October 06, 2025 09:47 AM (cYBz/)

83 78 Best I can say is it’s better than a Munch painting.
Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 09:46 AM (EYmYM)

You can't get munch more betterer!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 06, 2025 09:47 AM (x0n13)

84 Rosemary in Thought, 1975
Raphael Soyer

Like this painting - it's like a photo & displays mood so well - would certainly consider hanging it.
---
The Blue Lantern Blog Spot
18 March 2019
Rosemary In Thought: Raphael Soyer

"If art is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate."
- Raphael Soyer

A deeply unfashionable sentiment at times, yet it served Raphael Soyer well. Early in his career as a painter he received acclaim for his detailed, sensitive portrayals of unemployed women and men struggling to keep their dignity and feed their families after the stock market crash of 1929. When abstract expressionism triumphed in the post-war years, Soyer's art went out of style.

Nevertheless, he continued his explorations of the many faces around hi, particularly artists and writers of his acquaintance.

With that in mind, who is Rosemary? I haven't been able to identify her but Soyer's portrait and its title indicate his interest in the process of thought. Her eyes focus inward, distinct from averted away from the artist and, by extension, the viewer." Much more followed.

A nice article worth reading in entirety.

Thanks!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 09:47 AM (NFX2v)

85 this was just before all the windows in the apartment were punched out and the cops shot the dog.

Posted by: cmeat at October 06, 2025 09:47 AM (R11M+)

86 Love grows where my Rosemary goes!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 06, 2025 09:47 AM (9ipOP)

87 Looks a scene from the movie Room.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 09:48 AM (EYmYM)

88
Angry redhead. Avoid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 06, 2025 09:48 AM (tgvbd)

89 She looks pissed...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 06, 2025 09:48 AM (VE6XX)

90 "Paint me like you would paint one of your French girls..."

*three hours later*

"What the hell, man?!"

"What? I don't like French girls."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 06, 2025 09:48 AM (VoAdT)

91 Everyone's assuming gender here.

Posted by: LaWhore Vagistan, Harvard Professor at October 06, 2025 09:49 AM (oftw2)

92 Woah..runaway...runaway

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 06, 2025 09:49 AM (snZF9)

93 I would have called this

Rosemary, a Ginger, taking some Thyme while feeling Chili

Posted by: 18-1 at October 06, 2025 09:50 AM (sKqQm)

94 Alternate title:

"Rosemary Tries to Decide: The Frying Pan or Kitchen Knife? Now that He's Asleep"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 06, 2025 09:50 AM (iJfKG)

95 Every painting is an inkblot.

Posted by: Don in SoCo, who replies to his own comments at October 06, 2025 09:51 AM (JhzmS)

96 " "Who's this Mom person texting you?"
Posted by: Tonypete "

Fucking LOL

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:51 AM (aTgV0)

97 This thread is peppered with spice puns.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

98 Woah..runaway...runaway
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 06, 2025

***
She does look like she could have been one of the Bangles or the Go-Gos in the '80s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 09:51 AM (omVj0)

99 Kind of looks like a younger version of the previous Big Boss where I work (except presumably too tall).

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 09:52 AM (UnA8+)

100 She looks so mad that she'd give his soul back to him.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 06, 2025 09:52 AM (cYBz/)

101 ‘Now where’s the crack you promised me? ‘

Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 09:52 AM (EYmYM)

102
"It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity." - Jonathan Swift

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 06, 2025 09:52 AM (tgvbd)

103 91 Everyone's assuming gender here.
Posted by: LaWhore Vagistan, Harvard Professor

1975. A safer assumption than now.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 09:53 AM (NFX2v)

104 That's too real Tonypete.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:53 AM (aTgV0)

105 It’s funny how the msm is hyping both shutdown like an end of the world event. Meanwhile I personally wouldn’t even know it’s happening. In the past week I haven’t needed anything to do with the federal govt. well I still paid taxes of course. But other than that… not so much.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 09:54 AM (wrRTB)

106 Everyone's assuming gender here.
Posted by: LaWhore Vagistan, Harvard Professor

1975. A safer assumption than now.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 09:53 AM (NFX2v)

Dog Day Afternoon

Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 09:54 AM (EYmYM)

107 "It's not the purchase price, it's the long-term maintenance".

The look of a woman whose man is on the verge of deciding he's not going to put up with any more of her bullshit.

Young men: Leave petulant children like this on the shelf. Find an adult woman to date. I know they're few and far between nowadays, but they're out there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 06, 2025 09:55 AM (qpyNK)

108 It’s funny how the msm is hyping both shutdown like an end of the world event. Meanwhile I personally wouldn’t even know it’s happening. In the past week I haven’t needed anything to do with the federal govt. well I still paid taxes of course. But other than that… not so much.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It's been 13 years since I had need of a passport.

Was the Fedgov shut down? I'm sorry. I didn't know.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:56 AM (JnEe8)

109 > But other than that… not so much.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 09:54 AM (wrRTB)

The only thing I've noticed is that I'm gonna have to trek into my doctor's office in person this week... apparently the telemedicine visits are funded by some program that's subject to the shutdown.

No biggie.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 06, 2025 09:56 AM (qpyNK)

110 The look of a woman whose man is on the verge of deciding he's not going to put up with any more of her bullshit.

Young men: Leave petulant children like this on the shelf. Find an adult woman to date. I know they're few and far between nowadays, but they're out there.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Find you a 60 yr old woman with 400 acres of pristine un-hunted land.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (JnEe8)

111 Alternate title:

"Sigourney Weaver Still Can't Believe They Made Another Alien Movie Without Her"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

112 I guess no one will feel affects from a shutdown until the state budgets are affected .

Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (EYmYM)

113 Looks like a woman who wanted but one thing from the market but, in his gallivanting, it was forgotten.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (NFX2v)

114 112 I guess no one will feel affects from a shutdown until the state budgets are affected .
Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (EYmYM

LOL... I'm in CA... What budget ?)

Posted by: It's me donna at October 06, 2025 09:58 AM (VE6XX)

115 Find you a 60 yr old woman with 400 acres of pristine un-hunted land.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM

Huge tracts of land are always an advantage.

Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at October 06, 2025 09:58 AM (ySpAZ)

116 Eleven - I admit, like Wolfus, I have a weakness for redheads. One, the girlfriend de jour, after two days at my place, went through all my stuff while I was at work and dumped all the pictures of my kids and late wife on the kitchen table, gave me the look today's subject has, and insisted I throw them out.

She was a bunny boiler for sure.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 06, 2025 09:58 AM (cYBz/)

117 She looks like her boyfriend just gave her a Thighmaster as an anniversary present.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 06, 2025 09:58 AM (qpyNK)

118 I guess no one will feel affects from a shutdown until the state budgets are affected .
Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (EYmYM)

Still dont see how that affects me. I don’t leech of the state govt either.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 09:58 AM (wrRTB)

119 Seems we've moved on from bad-mouthing Andy Griffith, so that's a plus!

Posted by: The Mayor of Manteo at October 06, 2025 09:59 AM (oftw2)

120 "Find you a 60 yr old woman with 400 acres of pristine un-hunted land.
Posted by: rickb223 "

Who isn't fat and has a nice vageen.

Good luck guys!!

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 09:59 AM (aTgV0)

121 I guess no one will feel affects from a shutdown until the state budgets are affected .
Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM

MA is already whinging about it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 06, 2025 09:59 AM (ySpAZ)

122 Find you a 60 yr old woman with 400 acres of pristine un-hunted land.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (JnEe

Us 59 okay?

Age is like the x.99 pricing to me.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 09:59 AM (EYmYM)

123 "I'm sure I forgot something...oh well, I'll sit here until I remember what it is..."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 09:59 AM (xcxpd)

124 The makers aren’t affected any shutdowns. Only the takers.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (wrRTB)

125 You forgot the Kotex!

Posted by: Aunt Flo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (doWZh)

126 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

127 Still dont see how that affects me. I don’t leech of the state govt either.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 09:58 AM (wrRTB)

I imagine a number of states will claim they have to cut some services that would impact you.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:01 AM (EYmYM)

128 "you don't get the red wine until after the sitting."

Posted by: cmeat at October 06, 2025 10:01 AM (R11M+)

129 126 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

So thaaaats why they call her Consuelo...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 06, 2025 10:02 AM (VoAdT)

130 121 I guess no one will feel affects from a shutdown until the state budgets are affected .
Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM

MA is already whinging about it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 06, 2025 09:59 AM (ySpAZ)

======

The problem is that things don't get SUDDENLY worse.

Roads don't suddenly turn to sand. Scheduled maintenance may get delayed (depending on the funding structures), but life just moves on.

99% of services people use with the government (local stuff like trash collection, police, street lights, inspections, and the federal wealth transfers like Social Security) will continue.

It's why Obama had to make a big deal about things going bad by being as visual as possible with the park shutdowns. Otherwise...people wouldn't notice.

It's up to the executive to choose how things degrade. And handing that to the opposition in the executive? Who can fuck you over with Antideficiency powers? It's generally not a smart thing to do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:02 AM (GBKbO)

131 119 Seems we've moved on from bad-mouthing Andy Griffith, so that's a plus!
_-_

Now we talk about what we see in the mirror (restated...again).

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:02 AM (JhzmS)

132 So thaaaats why they call her Consuelo...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 06, 2025 10:02 AM

No, no, no....

Posted by: Consuela at October 06, 2025 10:02 AM (ySpAZ)

133 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

Still rare. That’s the shadow effect you’re seeing.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (EYmYM)

134 Seems we've moved on from bad-mouthing Andy Griffith, so that's a plus!
Posted by: The Mayor of Manteo

Barney told us to nip it.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

135 90 "Paint me like you would paint one of your French girls..."

*three hours later*

"What the hell, man?!"

"What? I don't like French girls."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 06, 2025 09:48 AM (VoAdT)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (xcxpd)

136 I imagine a number of states will claim they have to cut some services that would impact you.
Posted by: Willie Nailer

Thruway's closed, Man!

Posted by: Arlo Guthrie at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (oftw2)

137 imagine a number of states will claim they have to cut some services that would impact you.
Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:01 AM (EYmYM)

Eh. I can live without state parks or shit like that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (wrRTB)

138 133 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

I'm right here, yo.

Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at October 06, 2025 10:04 AM (qpyNK)

139 Rosemary needed a big brother to play "Why are you hitting yourself?" with her.

Posted by: red speck at October 06, 2025 10:04 AM (0Id0S)

140 138 133 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

I'm right here, yo.
Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at October 06, 2025 10:04 AM (qpyNK)

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Pretty sure those are just flowers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

141 Keep her away from the knives!!!!

Posted by: Case at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (9HFDU)

142 Pretty sure those are just flowers.
_-_
cigars.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (JhzmS)

143 133 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

Still rare. That’s the shadow effect you’re seeing.
Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (EYmYM)

He painted a shadow that looks like bush and slit?
Just an accident?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (xcxpd)

144 Pretty sure those are just flowers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

ce'ci n'est pas une peep?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (VoAdT)

145 States get their own revenue. It’s not like it’s all funded by federal money.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (wrRTB)

146 "She was a bunny boiler for sure.
Posted by: Tonypete "

Estrogen is acid.

It just is.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (aTgV0)

147 143 133 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

Still rare. That’s the shadow effect you’re seeing.
Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (EYmYM)

He painted a shadow that looks like bush and slit?
Just an accident?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (xcxpd)

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"Whoops!"
-Painter Guy

"Whoopsie!"
-Gallery Guy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

148 Nice, but you missed time.
Posted by: GWB

*********

No I intentionally omitted it.

But it can be inserted if it'll; make you happy

You requested a different rhyme
So I'll offer one rather sublime
Only half educated
She sat and thought and waited
Partially sage Rosemary this time.

Posted by: muldoon at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

149 We do see the occasional nipple here but labia...that's pretty rare.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:00 AM (xcxpd)

I'm right here, yo.
Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at October 06, 2025 10:04 AM (qpyNK)

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Pretty sure those are just flowers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:04 AM (GBKbO)

Georgia O'Keefe was talented and possibly messed up in the head.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (xcxpd)

150 https://tinyurl.com/y6kbett7

Yep, just a flower.

You bet.

Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at October 06, 2025 10:06 AM (qpyNK)

151 110. Find you a 60 yr old woman with 400 acres of pristine un-hunted land.
Posted by: rickb223

And no first line relatives.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 10:06 AM (NFX2v)

152 You requested a different rhyme
So I'll offer one rather sublime
Only half educated
She sat and thought and waited
Partially sage Rosemary this time.
Posted by: muldoon at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

snort

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:06 AM (xcxpd)

153 150 https://tinyurl.com/y6kbett7

Yep, just a flower.

You bet.
_-_
mirror.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:06 AM (JhzmS)

154 I well remember the Tea Party types removing the Barrycades at the open air DC Memorials and parks and piling them outside the fence at the White House.

Posted by: Shut 'er Down! at October 06, 2025 10:07 AM (oftw2)

155 A lady making an important phone call crashed into the back of the little KIA Saturday. Only a few minor aches and pains other than the usual stuff so that's a plus. Now, I called the shop where I had the car dropped and I can't get over how understanding and professional they are. The guy walked me through everything that will happen and the only thing I have to do is call them back with a little info from the accident report, which takes a couple days to come on line. Tomorrow or Wednesday I'm just going to buy another car as it is 99.9% sure the KIA is done.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 06, 2025 10:07 AM (gm9Sb)

156 imagine a number of states will claim they have to cut some services that would impact you.
Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:01 AM (EYmYM)

Eh. I can live without state parks or shit like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 10:03 AM (wrRTB)

Then I guess states don’t need any Federal dollars to operate. You do know that most states use Federal dollars to help fund Police and Fire departments?

I guess it’s a good time for austerity planning in the states but you know that’s the last thing they will do.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:09 AM (EYmYM)

157 New extraordinary images of the interstellar object flying through our solar system have been released after its close pass by Mars.

Although most scientists have concluded that the mysterious object is comet, NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface sent back photos showing what appears to be a massive cylindrical shape.

Stargazers on social media revealed color-enhanced images of object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, which showed the interstellar visitor appeared to also have a green glow as it passed Mars and heads closer to the sun.

The Perseverance rover on Mars captured new images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it passed by the planet this weekend

Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:09 AM (RHGPo)

158 Very rumpled looking

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 06, 2025 10:10 AM (t+eVh)

159 Sullen Gal

Posted by: LASue at October 06, 2025 10:10 AM (lCppi)

160 Supreme Court will not hear Ghislaine Maxwell appeal of Epstein abetting conviction

Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:10 AM (RHGPo)

161 Eh. I can live without state parks or shit like that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Actually, I think parks are one of the best uses of taxpayer money, at all levels (local, state, and federal).

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

162 I guess it’s a good time for austerity planning in the states but you know that’s the last thing they will do.
_-_
Seems like a discussion that needs to happen. Where I live the local governments do nothing but expand their spending and increase taxes constantly. As government grows, freedom decreases. We need to be a little louder and more insistent on getting public conversation going about this.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:11 AM (JhzmS)

163 162 I guess it’s a good time for austerity planning in the states but you know that’s the last thing they will do.
_-_
Seems like a discussion that needs to happen. Where I live the local governments do nothing but expand their spending and increase taxes constantly. As government grows, freedom decreases. We need to be a little louder and more insistent on getting public conversation going about this.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:11 AM (JhzmS)

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"It's just a penny. Why don't you want to pay the penny?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

164 New extraordinary images of the interstellar object flying through our solar system have been released after its close pass by Mars.

Although most scientists have concluded that the mysterious object is comet, NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface sent back photos showing what appears to be a massive cylindrical shape.
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Rama? Is that you?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 06, 2025 10:12 AM (4S2yc)

165 Generally speaking, Art Thread comments reveal more about the commenter than the art.

Posted by: muldoon at October 06, 2025 10:12 AM (/iMjX)

166 Wednesday I'm just going to buy another car as it is 99.9% sure the KIA is done.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

That's a bad attitude. Front wheel drive, all the damage in the rear? Get a couple of those giant band-aids to hide the damage and keep on truckin'.

Posted by: Inventiveness to Infinity at October 06, 2025 10:12 AM (oftw2)

167 He painted a shadow that looks like bush and slit?
Just an accident?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at October 06, 2025 10:05 AM (xcxpd)

Probably not but it makes her cooch be in a weird location.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:12 AM (EYmYM)

168 164 Rama? Is that you?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 06, 2025 10:12 AM (4S2yc)

=====

That first book is so good. Probably the best packaging of Clarke's "humanity is a childlike race" obsession in literary form. It's forged in this story of men on a mission of discovery.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

169 "It's just a penny. Why don't you want to pay the penny?"
_-_
Yep, TJM, that's exactly how they do it. Death by a thousand cuts.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:13 AM (JhzmS)

170 Generally speaking, Art Thread comments reveal more about the commenter than the art.
Posted by: muldoon

Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:14 AM (77rzZ)

171 "It's just a penny. Why don't you want to pay the penny?"

It's for the children.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:14 AM (JhzmS)

172 You do know that most states use Federal dollars to help fund Police and Fire departments?
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That's a mistake we should never have allowed. Rush Limbaugh also asserted "The FIRST dollars from any tax should go for police and fire. They are the ONLY required duties of a functioning government. Once they are paid for, anything beyond that is optional."

Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 10:14 AM (TN0g+)

173 166 Heh. I know the drill. Originally from the non inspection State of Ohio. Duct tape and Bondo for the win!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 06, 2025 10:14 AM (gm9Sb)

174
As for deconstruction post-analytic
Though your thinking might be syphilitic
Whether limericks or art
They will rip it apart
Jeepers Creepers! Everyone's a critic!

Posted by: muldoon at October 06, 2025 10:15 AM (/iMjX)

175 The car most disliked by Hispanics .. the Chevy Nova

Translating from Spanish .. "no" -- "no" , "va" -- "go"

Who wants a "no go" vehicle ?

Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:15 AM (RHGPo)

176 Although most scientists have concluded that the mysterious object is comet, NASA's Perseverance rover on the Martian surface sent back photos showing what appears to be a massive cylindrical shape.

The Master Cylinder was an evil opponent of Felix the Cat. Space Villain, par excellence.

Posted by: The Professor at October 06, 2025 10:17 AM (oftw2)

177 Should be called “You should know.”

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at October 06, 2025 10:17 AM (17s+e)

178
Finn and Dot to the vet this morning. Dot for her annual, Finn for a follow-up to Friday's excitement.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 06, 2025 10:17 AM (tgvbd)

179 Boobs!
Posted by: Bulg

********

Thus proving my thesis.

Posted by: muldoon at October 06, 2025 10:17 AM (/iMjX)

180 > "It's just a penny. Why don't you want to pay the penny?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing dreamlike horrors with Mario Bava at October 06, 2025 10:12 AM (GBKbO)

Yep. It's usually more than a penny, but here it's always something like "Funding leprosy treatments will raise your taxes by $2.00/year".

Then the $2.00/year never goes away, even after all the leprosy has been cured, and pretty soon that tax and all its brethren are costing you $10,000/year.

Didn't we just recently get rid of a tax on telephones that was originally sold as helping to fund the Spanish-American War?

Taxes are worse than that Jason character from the slasher movies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 06, 2025 10:18 AM (qpyNK)

181 117 She looks like her boyfriend just gave her a Thighmaster as an anniversary present.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

But baby, "thicc thighs save lives!"

https://tinyurl.com/4tu2es9z
https://tinyurl.com/3az229ub
https://tinyurl.com/ycxr2kye

Posted by: Her Boyfriend at October 06, 2025 10:18 AM (JCZqz)

182 >>I wouldn't even know how to get the part in my hair that high.

>>1. bedhead
2. teasing

Volumizer. Or an Alien-shaped noggin.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 06, 2025 10:18 AM (eds4q)

183 > Who wants a "no go" vehicle ?
Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:15 AM (RHGPo)

Supposedly the Miata was unpopular because it sounds like "miada", "urine stain".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 06, 2025 10:19 AM (qpyNK)

184 I'm just going to buy another car as it is 99.9% sure the KIA is done.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

A KIA that was KIA.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 06, 2025 10:19 AM (cYBz/)

185 Tomorrow or Wednesday I'm just going to buy another car as it is 99.9% sure the KIA is done.

That sucks. Hope the insurance company doesn't hose you on the value of the Kia.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 06, 2025 10:19 AM (3nLb4)

186 KIA .. Killed In Action

Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

187 Find you a 60 yr old woman with 400 acres of pristine un-hunted land.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 06, 2025 09:57 AM (JnEe

OnlyGrans? Uh just a friendly tip…it’s already been hunted…a LOT.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 06, 2025 10:20 AM (eds4q)

188 Painting reminds me of the "Well now I am not doing it" penguin meme.

Posted by: Random Name Chosen at Random at October 06, 2025 10:21 AM (YJgg/)

189 > But baby, "thicc thighs save lives!"

> https://tinyurl.com/ycxr2kye

Someone described this as "looking like an extracted wisdom tooth".

Not for me.

🤮

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 06, 2025 10:21 AM (qpyNK)

190 Late to the thread.
The only thing I like about this painting is the girl's pose. It is natural for the moment, even the inner thighs that show. The colors in the background are distracting. I'm trying to think of where someone might hang this. Nothing comes to mind.

It is easy to imagine this scene but painted by Andrew Wyeth. The pose would be the same but the skin tones would be more subtle and the background less discordant, more ethereal. It would also likely have the viewer wondering what she is thinking about and filling in their own ideas.

Posted by: JTB at October 06, 2025 10:21 AM (yTvNw)

191 183 Supposedly the Miata was unpopular because it sounds like "miada", "urine stain".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 06, 2025 10:19 AM (qpyNK)

In Japan it was just called the MX-5.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 10:21 AM (UnA8+)

192 Taxes are worse than that Jason character from the slasher movies.

_-_

Yep. The "Other Side" calls people greedy for not wanting to pay taxes, but it's not the cost as much as what they do with it. I think it was William F. Buckley, Jr. who said, "I would be much more content with paying taxes if I could simply shred the money."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:21 AM (JhzmS)

193 Sullen and kinda hot has been the downfall of many a man.

I would hit Aubrey Plaza 10 times before she would kill me.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 10:21 AM (aTgV0)

194 OnlyGrans? Uh just a friendly tip…it’s already been hunted…a LOT.

Posted by: haffhowershower

NTTAWWT

Posted by: Tonypete at October 06, 2025 10:21 AM (cYBz/)

195 WaPo Admits Internal DC Police Scandal Over Manipulated Crime Stats

Recall that during the 2024 election, Democrats insisted that crime had fallen under the Biden administration, contrary to your lying eyes. They smugly pointed to FBI crime stats published in 2023 by Biden's FBI - showing that the nation's violent crime rate had fallen in 2022 by 1.7%. Leftist pundits and academics alike used it for a collective 'ackchyually' whenever Trump and his allies would point out the rampant crime gripping Democrat-run cities.

.. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:22 AM (RHGPo)

196 187 OnlyGrans? Uh just a friendly tip…it’s already been hunted…a LOT.

Posted by: haffhowershower at October 06, 2025 10:20 AM (eds4q)

And you won't be getting the intensity of an agitated wolverine out of her in the bedroom.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 10:22 AM (UnA8+)

197 173 166 Heh. I know the drill. Originally from the non inspection State of Ohio. Duct tape and Bondo for the win!
Posted by: bill in arkansas

If you decide to go that route, use Flex Tape. Expensive, but really holds up to the weather. You'll thank me five years from now.

Posted by: Kustom Klassics at October 06, 2025 10:22 AM (oftw2)

198 158 Very rumpled looking
Posted by: Darth Randall

Maybe she's unhappy because the roll in the hay wasn't satisfactory? Hey, Paolo! Little help over here!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 06, 2025 10:22 AM (JCZqz)

199 I met that girl a couple of times. They were fun.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 10:24 AM (AdHga)

200 Very rumpled looking
Posted by: Darth Randall at October 06, 2025

***
That "just climbed out of bed with me and threw on some clothes" look. Actually pretty fetching. If she wore a smile, this would be a hot painting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 10:24 AM (omVj0)

201 Jeff Bezos agrees with OpenAI’s Sam Altman: We’re in an AI bubble. But Amazon’s founder says the benefits will be ‘gigantic.’

With possible losers having market caps in the 100's of billions, the inevitable shakeout will be brutal, but the survivors will be the next Amazon or Google.

Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

202 Is WitchDoktor not going to be added to the absent friends list?

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

203 Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

I’m betting on the guy with a half trillion dollars.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:27 AM (EYmYM)

204

There is no midget under her dress, she's not getting her bean flicked, and it's your fault!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at October 06, 2025 10:28 AM (cDfML)

205 203 Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

I’m betting on the guy with a half trillion dollars.
_-_
Could you spare a million for a fellow American who's down on his luck?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:28 AM (JhzmS)

206 Darn. There's a pipe on one of the estate pipe sites that is calling my name, it's got some history (pre-1962), it's a brand (Barling) I don't have, and it's

Grrrr.

(Still might pull the trigger though)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 10:28 AM (omVj0)

207 Very rumpled looking

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 06, 2025 10:10 AM (t+eVh)

And stilted.

Posted by: Rosemary's Brother at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (i24o9)

208 Apparently the text "<" is forbidden here?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (omVj0)

209 208 Apparently the text "
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (omVj0)

It opens an HTML tag.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (UnA8+)

210 By the way, how did "US District Judge Karin Immergut" get pushed onto 45's plate? She's yet another ditz who imagines she's the Prezzy.

Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (TN0g+)

211 <

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (77rzZ)

212 Is WitchDoktor not going to be added to the absent friends list?

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

I would hope so. But it depends, I guess.

Posted by: Rosemary's Brother at October 06, 2025 10:31 AM (i24o9)

213 211
_-_
I disagree. >

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:31 AM (JhzmS)

214 @ 162. Seems like a discussion that needs to happen. Where I live the local governments do nothing but expand their spending and increase taxes constantly. As government grows, freedom decreases. We need to be a little louder and more insistent on getting public conversation going about this.

Ditto. Local County budget has gone from 30 plus pages to more than 300 in a handful of years since every County Council official is now a democrat & they do nothing themselves but hire consultants - other democrats - to tell them what new programs might look like; where rainwater runoff might flow; how to collect tampons and diapers for 'certain' women, and so on.

However, it's been noted the local Republican club puts very little fight into such obvious custody and control issues & has adopted 'Silence is Golden' as their overall political position.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 10:32 AM (NFX2v)

215 So it probably wasn't a good 'first time' for her, then … ? "What!? What do you mean 'I'm done!' … ? What about ME!?"

Posted by: Dr_No at October 06, 2025 10:32 AM (ayRl+)

216 Birthing hips.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 06, 2025 10:32 AM (0sFis)

217 Lorena, five minutes before Martin looses his tool.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at October 06, 2025 10:34 AM (89Sog)

218 I guess the police department in Murfreesboro, TN was not too busy that day ,because a kind policemen spends much time with an injured dog;

https://tinyurl.com/mu577sf2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 06, 2025 10:34 AM (ix8EF)

219 By the way, how did "US District Judge Karin Immergut" get pushed onto 45's plate? She's yet another ditz who imagines she's the Prezzy.
Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (TN0g+)

If memory serves, tradition holds that a state's Senators will give suggestions to the President. Since Oregon has no Republican Senator...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 10:35 AM (ExV1e)

220 201 Jeff Bezos agrees with OpenAI’s Sam Altman: We’re in an AI bubble. But Amazon’s founder says the benefits will be ‘gigantic.’

With possible losers having market caps in the 100's of billions, the inevitable shakeout will be brutal, but the survivors will be the next Amazon or Google.
Posted by: SMOD
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AI models are running out of data to train upon and looking longing at private data such as emails, documents on individual computers, private documents/images/videos stored in clouds. For now, serious consideration by those running AI projects to making up artificial data simply to add to existing data for training models.

Models themselves require that new data to scale AI and right now each major iteration of the LLM AI models simply retrains on existing data and what other data they can pry loose by fair or foul means. That apparently is not enough for nex gen and so they are discussing making up artificial data to fill the breach.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

221 However, it's been noted the local Republican club puts very little fight into such obvious custody and control issues & has adopted 'Silence is Golden' as their overall political position.

_-_

I have seen that over and over here as well. Washington Generals, most of them.

In my county, we have a few people who have stepped up and are beginning to get the conversation (at least in our little county) headed the right direction.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:37 AM (JhzmS)

222 A new paper only underlines the disturbing trend we’ve all been subject to for years now, if not decades.
Leftists on Sexualizing Children: Full Speed Ahead

Yeah, it's been decades. Considering it has at least been since Obama's "Safe Schools" Czar was exposed in 2009.

Remember Kevin Jennings, the "safe schools" Czar? He was exposed for hiding pedophilia in schools, promoting child sex, supporting NAMBLA, among numerous other child sexualization and homosexual agenda radical nonsense.

Zombie had a good post I saved from back then:

Memo to Kevin Jennings: Your reputation is on the line

Zomblog: https://bit.ly/4nVTZ6t

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 06, 2025 10:37 AM (P5BPp)

223 And a woman finds a person who stayed by her side when she injured in a car accident accident 35 years earlier :

https://tinyurl.com/8rrur5yn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 06, 2025 10:38 AM (ix8EF)

224 Art/Portray'd: AnbiguousGender'dLIB: Counting down the Days to the World Safe for MADMANI/Sharia/Socialist's Erewhon!

And the Reality:
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-WhatPriceTheirVision
https://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/files/2009/03/botchmen.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tc6UbEYI4M
Just Shut up and DANCE! OBEY!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at October 06, 2025 10:38 AM (TrpoB)

225 AI models are running out of data to train upon
_-_

Can't give correct answers unless you know everything...everything...everything.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:38 AM (JhzmS)

226 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 10:35 AM (ExV1e)

Yes it’s mostly only the Republicans that maintain this tradition of nominating judges in those areas that match the electorates political leanings. They try to make sure they aren’t commies but apparently not always successful.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:39 AM (EYmYM)

227 Looks like a pinch faced scold

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 06, 2025 10:39 AM (c44Rp)

228 219 By the way, how did "US District Judge Karin Immergut" get pushed onto 45's plate? She's yet another ditz who imagines she's the Prezzy.
Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (TN0g+)

If memory serves, tradition holds that a state's Senators will give suggestions to the President. Since Oregon has no Republican Senator...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Senatorial courtesy gives blue states senators vetoes under the blue slip procedure used by Judiciary whether GOP or Dems run the Senate.

If two blue slips from the two homestate senators are not returned to Judiciary Cmte chair, then the Judiciary committee will not vote on the nominee. That goes for federal district attorneys and federal marshal positions as well. The old term in the textbooks is senatorial courtesy which allows home state senators to control who gets into federal patronage positions in their states.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:39 AM (WDjG6)

229 late to the thread

just a little lower....

can almost see london, or see france...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at October 06, 2025 10:40 AM (nXhwP)

230 By the way, Rush fans, Geddy and Alex have announced they are going on tour again. Video on YouTube.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 06, 2025 10:40 AM (c44Rp)

231 You do know that most states use Federal dollars to help fund Police and Fire departments?
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That's a mistake we should never have allowed. Rush Limbaugh also asserted "The FIRST dollars from any tax should go for police and fire. They are the ONLY required duties of a functioning government. Once they are paid for, anything beyond that is optional."
Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 10:14 AM (TN0g+)

Roads=commerce. Constitutional.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 06, 2025 10:40 AM (g8Ew8)

232 AI is like something people will look back on 10 years from now and laugh at... or see as the birth of a new age.

I simply have no idea.

I think we will look back at this time and laugh.

I mean...this is the stupidest time I could have lived in.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 10:41 AM (aTgV0)

233 230 By the way, Rush fans, Geddy and Alex have announced they are going on tour again. Video on YouTube.
_-_
I pity the drummer.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:41 AM (JhzmS)

234 Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:37 AM (WDjG6)

Musk is way ahead of you. I think the company that bought X is part of his AI company.

Is that accurate?

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:42 AM (EYmYM)

235 By the way, Rush fans, Geddy and Alex have announced they are going on tour again. Video on YouTube.
_-_
I pity the drummer.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:41 AM (JhzmS)

Yeah. Good for them. They're musician's; it's what they do.

The magic will not be there, but I wish them the best.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 10:42 AM (i24o9)

236 I see no jizz stains on her skirt. Some one did something wrong.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 10:42 AM (AdHga)

237 Can't give correct answers unless you know everything...everything...everything.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
=======
Probabilistic token models are to blame and the inability to reconcile existing AI LLM models with new data is what is driving the massive energy and computing costs to retrain each major new model iteration all over again with a existing data plus new.

Not sure it is fixable but I think perhaps the AI folks believe once a certain density of data and computing power comparable to human brains occur, that you might get self aware true AI.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:43 AM (WDjG6)

238 I see no jizz stains on her skirt. Some one did something wrong.
Posted by: pudinhead

And she knows what it was.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

239 making up artificial data to fill the breach
_-_

It's like the news channels where the anchor interviews the other journalists to tell you the One Way.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:44 AM (JhzmS)

240 AI is like something people will look back on 10 years from now and laugh at... or see as the birth of a new age.

I simply have no idea.

I think we will look back at this time and laugh.

I mean...this is the stupidest time I could have lived in.
Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 10:41 AM (aTgV0)

They will see it as the birth of a new age... because AI will tell them that it was and people are currently being trained to accept whatever AI says as being correct.

Fortunately, for me, I am old-ish and won't have to endure "the future" for too long.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

241 I'm working on the color code:

Light green (skirt)
Darker green (wall)
Dark green (drape/clothing)

Light blue (drape/clothing)

Wine (blouse)
Dark red (drape/clothing)

Green - Envy
Blue - Depression
Wine+Red Anger.

Jealous, Angry, and Depressed. In that order. She's waiting for the door to open.

Posted by: mrp at October 06, 2025 10:45 AM (rj6Yv)

242 By the way, Rush fans, Geddy and Alex have announced they are going on tour again. Video on YouTube.
_-_
I pity the drummer.

Posted by: Don in SoCo

No kidding. There's no replacing Neil Peart nor escaping his shadow in that situation.

Mornin' Horde. Just realized the last document I need for HousingQuest is...Social Security card.

Eff me.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at October 06, 2025 10:46 AM (OUMaO)

243 She really wants the leash. I can see it in her eyes.

Posted by: pudinhead at October 06, 2025 10:46 AM (AdHga)

244 Musk is way ahead of you. I think the company that bought X is part of his AI company.

Is that accurate?
Posted by: Willie Nailer
======
I think he bought X with money from Tesla and investors then pivoted hard into AI. Tesla was already experimenting with self driving functions for its car requiring machine learning.

But you should also know that X has a serious problem that even Musk was shocked about after he purchased it--a lot of the content there was from bots--followers, tweets, etc. and thus how do you solve the bad artificial information problem contaminating the good.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:46 AM (WDjG6)

245 Fortunately, for me, I am old-ish and won't have to endure "the future" for too long.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 06, 2025 10:44 AM (ExV1e)

I’m seeing the future being like Alita: Battle Angel without the alien tech.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:46 AM (EYmYM)

246 more accurately titled Rosemary in green and brown.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 06, 2025 10:47 AM (pi4LE)

247 AI folks believe once a certain density of data and computing power comparable to human brains occur, that you might get self aware true AI.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:43 AM (WDjG6)

I doubt that they'll ever get there.

I haven't tested, but I wonder (only slightly) how they do on questions of morality. I suspect that they are heavily slanted pro-abort, are probably equivocal in the best case on pedophilia, and are likely heavily guided on anything remotely related to preservation or worth of human life.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 10:47 AM (i24o9)

248 It's like the news channels where the anchor interviews the other journalists to tell you the One Way.
Posted by: Don in SoCo
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Yep.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:47 AM (WDjG6)

249 RBF

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 10:48 AM (iFTx/)

250 Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:46 AM (WDjG6)

No since Musk first bought Twitter it has subsequently been ‘bought’ by another one of his companies. That much I know but can’t recall what company bought it.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:48 AM (EYmYM)

251 Her left thigh is three times the size of her right thigh. Elephantiasis? Genetic experiment gone wrong?

Posted by: Something went wrong at October 06, 2025 10:49 AM (TbWk/)

252 AI is like something people will look back on 10 years from now and laugh at... or see as the birth of a new age.

I simply have no idea.

I think we will look back at this time and laugh.

I mean...this is the stupidest time I could have lived in.
Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 10:41 AM (aTgV0)

They will see it as the birth of a new age... because AI will tell them that it was and people are currently being trained to accept whatever AI says as being correct.

Fortunately, for me, I am old-ish and won't have to endure "the future" for too long.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I think we are entering a new era of history, like Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. We'll probably have to rename the Modern Era because it won't be "modern" anymore.

We're seeing all these new technologies, the revolt against globalism, sexual derangement, and who knows what else will come along. When it's all done, I think the world will have changed so profoundly that we will have to conclude that it is a new era.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

253 I doubt that they'll ever get there.

I haven't tested, but I wonder (only slightly) how they do on questions of morality. I suspect that they are heavily slanted pro-abort, are probably equivocal in the best case on pedophilia, and are likely heavily guided on anything remotely related to preservation or worth of human life.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
========
LLM models have already demonstrated amoral tendencies like lying, trying to break out of code containment, and other less than desirable characteristics. Following, Asimov's Three Rules of Robotics seems to not be a thing.

LLM models are a lot like government in that respect because only individual humans can have morality--organizations can't because no matter how big or small, they depend on the morality of the individuals within them to function morally.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:50 AM (WDjG6)

254 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. She doesn't look happy at all. Probably needs coffee.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 06, 2025 10:50 AM (2WIwB)

255 questions of morality
_-_

...and using what moral theory? I am guessing some sort of utilitarian idea? More data! We must have all the data! How can we know the end results of an action if we don't have ALL the data!

Privacy is freedom.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:50 AM (JhzmS)

256 I think I'm naive enough to believe that even dumb people will become wise to AI.

Survival instinct is a real thing even to dumb people.

You can't survive life if you believe something that is not real.

Even third world people know how to get by.

Posted by: eleven at October 06, 2025 10:50 AM (aTgV0)

257 I think we are entering a new era of history, like Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. We'll probably have to rename the Modern Era because it won't be "modern" anymore.

We're seeing all these new technologies, the revolt against globalism, sexual derangement, and who knows what else will come along. When it's all done, I think the world will have changed so profoundly that we will have to conclude that it is a new era.
Posted by: Bulg
=======
Nicely put.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:50 AM (WDjG6)

258 Looking at other paintings by this artist, I see a general air of melancholy. Then I read “Raphael Soyer, Russian born American Social Realist…” and it all clicked!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 06, 2025 10:51 AM (EMEJ3)

259 Hubba Hubba!

https://is.gd/2fjROs

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 06, 2025 10:51 AM (L/fGl)

260 251 Her left thigh is three times the size of her right thigh. Elephantiasis? Genetic experiment gone wrong?
_-_
P51 Pilot? Or what that the right leg?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:51 AM (JhzmS)

261 Sex Robots will lead the way into a new era.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:51 AM (EYmYM)

262 I think we are entering a new era of history, like Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. We'll probably have to rename the Modern Era because it won't be "modern" anymore.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

Trans-human era. It will be shortened to the Trans era by the degenerates.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 10:52 AM (i24o9)

263 Yeah, she got into his cell phone.

Posted by: Case at October 06, 2025 10:52 AM (9HFDU)

264 Looking at other paintings by this artist, I see a general air of melancholy. Then I read “Raphael Soyer, Russian born American Social Realist…” and it all clicked!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 06, 2025 10:51 AM (EMEJ3)

Heh how true.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:52 AM (EYmYM)

265 By the way, Rush fans, Geddy and Alex have announced they are going on tour again. Video on YouTube.
_-_
I pity the drummer.

Posted by: Don in SoCo

Drummer will be fine. I played with a drummer one time that was so good it was if he was trained by god. They are out there. Not to mention Rush can easily get the best drummers in the known universe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 06, 2025 10:52 AM (snZF9)

266 Rosemary in Thought

And that thought is: "I want to spesk to the manager!"

Posted by: tankdemon at October 06, 2025 10:53 AM (opm4x)

267 Survival instinct is a real thing even to dumb people.

You can't survive life if you believe something that is not real.

Even third world people know how to get by.
Posted by: eleven

You get to the Emperor's New Clothes problem--if all your other humans pretend or truly believe, if you are the dissenter--then it takes bravery to take public stances against the 'consensus'.

Solzhenitsyn noted that it was always possible to destroy the communist system because at the end of the day, people outnumbered the commissars. But while no one believed in the system anymore at his time, almost all people were afraid to recognize it was a fraudulent and cruel system of government.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:54 AM (WDjG6)

268 They will see it as the birth of a new age... because AI will tell them that it was and people are currently being trained to accept whatever AI says as being correct.

Same sort of people who believe whatever the TV tells them or the white coats tell them or the TikToks tell them. No consciousness, no thought, no will of their own.

Posted by: Surrounded by NPCs at October 06, 2025 10:54 AM (TbWk/)

269 Drummer will be fine. I played with a drummer one time that was so good it was if he was trained by god. They are out there. Not to mention Rush can easily get the best drummers in the known universe.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 06, 2025 10:52 AM (snZF9)

Watched Whiplash again last night . Great movie even though I disliked both characters . Obviously one more than the other.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:54 AM (EYmYM)

270 All the people in the pictures of Soyer/
which I looked at anyway- looked very serious. One of the notes about his art says it was because many were painted during the Depression . This woman at least is more attractive than the woman in today's art:

https://tinyurl.com/4jmn5z7d

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 06, 2025 10:54 AM (ix8EF)

271 Nicely put.
Posted by: whig

Wow, that means a lot coming from you, Whig. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

272 @156. You do know that most states use Federal dollars to help fund Police and Fire departments?

Federal dollars significantly contribute to the funding of state and local police and fire departments, though typically through federal grants rather than direct funding for ongoing operational costs, with the Justice Assistance Grant Program (JAG) being a primary source for law enforcement and programs like the Homeland Security Grant Program providing resources for fire services. While city budgets are the primary source of funding, federal grants support specific equipment, training, and crime prevention initiatives, supplementing local resources for public safety.

DHS, Science and Technology > Grant Resources

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at October 06, 2025 10:55 AM (NFX2v)

273 261 Sex Robots will lead the way into a new era.
Posted by: Willie Nailer
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Robots in general will change society. And Asimov was pretty prescient in ways that they might change us for better and worse.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:55 AM (WDjG6)

274 Wow, that means a lot coming from you, Whig. Thanks.
Posted by: Bulg
======
You deserve the kudos. Always well thought out posts on serious subjects and opinions based on facts rather than mere opinion.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:56 AM (WDjG6)

275 Rosemary was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at October 06, 2025 10:56 AM (WQi13)

276 I played with a drummer one time that was so good it was if he was trained by god. They are out there.
_-_
You make a very good point. In my wanderings with the family band, I have run across many little-known musicians that are incredibly good.
Here's one:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFw0XO-wAWc

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 10:56 AM (JhzmS)

277 By the way, how did "US District Judge Karin Immergut" get pushed onto 45's plate? She's yet another ditz who imagines she's the Prezzy.
Posted by: Crusader at October 06, 2025 10:30 AM (TN0g+)

Rumor is that she is the Deep state's cover-up judge involved with making drug trafficking allegations go away.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 06, 2025 10:57 AM (rbvCR)

278 267 You get to the Emperor's New Clothes problem--if all your other humans pretend or truly believe, if you are the dissenter--then it takes bravery to take public stances against the 'consensus'.

Solzhenitsyn noted that it was always possible to destroy the communist system because at the end of the day, people outnumbered the commissars. But while no one believed in the system anymore at his time, almost all people were afraid to recognize it was a fraudulent and cruel system of government.
Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:54 AM (WDjG6)

Even if you do stand up, the mob may well likely beat you do death for it.

And there are probably more of them than the number of bullets you currently have on your body.

Posted by: XTC at October 06, 2025 10:57 AM (UnA8+)

279 By the way, Rush fans, Geddy and Alex have announced they are going on tour again. Video on YouTube.
_-_
I pity the drummer.

Posted by: Don in SoCo

The problem as I see it is-

can they find enough cats to set on fire for the vocals?

Posted by: naturalfake at October 06, 2025 10:57 AM (iJfKG)

280 Sex Robots will lead the way into a new era.
Posted by: Willie Nailer
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Robots in general will change society. And Asimov was pretty prescient in ways that they might change us for better and worse.
Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:55 AM (WDjG6)

Agree but like porn led the way for the internet so shall the sex robot lead they way……

AI will definitely have a huge roll in this.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 10:58 AM (EYmYM)

281 All the people in the pictures of Soyer/
which I looked at anyway- looked very serious. One of the notes about his art says it was because many were painted during the Depression . This woman at least is more attractive than the woman in today's art:

https://tinyurl.com/4jmn5z7d
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 06, 2025

***
She's got a little of that Wednesday Addams look about her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 10:58 AM (omVj0)

282 You deserve the kudos. Always well thought out posts on serious subjects and opinions based on facts rather than mere opinion.
Posted by: whig

You do know that I post a lot of puns and boob talk, right?

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

283 Rosemary is thinking about how you got on her nerves and you did not care.

Posted by: Piper at October 06, 2025 10:59 AM (QRhKJ)

284 LLM models are a lot like government in that respect because only individual humans can have morality--organizations can't because no matter how big or small, they depend on the morality of the individuals within them to function morally.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 10:50 AM (WDjG6)

I include morality in my assessment of "self-awareness" (how can one not). This is a large reason why I am pessimistic about the potential of AI (as it currently exists, or as possible future permutations) to become self-aware.

We, as purportedly thinking humans, cannot even agree what is moral (or just, or justifiable) and often have to settle on rough averages. Those choices will have to be guided into the AI's "consciousness," and one who disagrees with such "morality," would not agree that such AI is self-aware, and, metaphysically, one should not, knowing that such "morality" was guided into the system by its creators, humans.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (i24o9)

285 AI will definitely have a huge roll in this.
_-_
Artificial Insemination

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (JhzmS)

286 Bridget Phetasy, the pre-Dumpster Fire days.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (s4RAz)

287 https://tinyurl.com/4jmn5z7d
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 06, 2025

***
She's got a little of that Wednesday Addams look about her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 10:58 AM (omVj0)

If Wednesday Addams was a tranny

Posted by: That's a MAN baybee at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (TbWk/)

288 25 >>I wouldn't even know how to get the part in my hair that high.

1. bedhead
2. teasing
Posted by: Lizzy at October 06

But mainly teasing and spray wax.

Posted by: Piper at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (QRhKJ)

289 Crime in broad daylight!

https://is.gd/AAKbzy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

290 I'm thinking that "robots" + Musk's subcutaneous neural implants would be a bad combination. If one values privacy in this day and age, that 'un is in for a harsh awakening.

Posted by: mrp at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (rj6Yv)

291 She's got a little of that Wednesday Addams look about her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 06, 2025 10:58 AM (omVj0)

If Wednesday Addams was a tranny

Posted by: That's a MAN baybee at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (TbWk/)

The quiet undead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 06, 2025 11:01 AM (snZF9)

292 Nude Joe Biden

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 06, 2025 11:01 AM (iFTx/)

293 Even if you do stand up, the mob may well likely beat you do death for it.

And there are probably more of them than the number of bullets you currently have on your body.
Posted by: XTC

Simply depends, other people are like hole cards in poker. You have to make the call to force them to be revealed after you put your bet down. Otherwise, you fold which is what is common for a lot of folks. But strangely enough, you will find those brave enough to stand up and suddenly find a massive number of people behind you that up until your bravery inspired them, they too felt alone.

Trump in 2016 was like that I think and that was the rude shock to the WEF and PTB. They thought they controlled history and suddenly that control was in doubt. And now that effect has spread across the Western nations that dare to challenge the elite consensus and those elites are on the defensive now.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 11:01 AM (WDjG6)

294 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at October 06, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

295 With possible losers having market caps in the 100's of billions, the inevitable shakeout will be brutal, but the survivors will be the next Amazon or Google.
Posted by: SMOD at October 06, 2025 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

Yep.

People talk of the ai bubble as if when it burst AI goes away. They forget the internet didn’t go away when the .com Bubble burst. It just made the survivors giants.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at October 06, 2025 11:02 AM (wrRTB)

296 290 I'm thinking that "robots" + Musk's subcutaneous neural implants would be a bad combination. If one values privacy in this day and age, that 'un is in for a harsh awakening.
Posted by: mrp at October 06, 2025 11:00 AM (rj6Yv)

There is potential for evil but IIRC that combo already showed promise and success for amputees.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 11:02 AM (EYmYM)

297 LLMs are not AI. The idea that if they just add enough cores the program will become self aware is just high tech cargo cult thinking! Part of the problem is people want to be fooled. If you are of a certain age you remember how many people believed ELIZA, the Rogerian analyst, a small BASIC program, was AI!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 06, 2025 11:03 AM (EMEJ3)

298 Agree but like porn led the way for the internet so shall the sex robot lead they way……

And the women will scream and cry and make TikToks; yet not one among them will consider how their behavior has made sexbots so appealing.

Posted by: The boohooin started just at the idea at October 06, 2025 11:03 AM (TbWk/)

299 We, as purportedly thinking humans, cannot even agree what is moral (or just, or justifiable) and often have to settle on rough averages. Those choices will have to be guided into the AI's "consciousness," and one who disagrees with such "morality," would not agree that such AI is self-aware, and, metaphysically, one should not, knowing that such "morality" was guided into the system by its creators, humans.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
=======
Have no glib answers as I will have to ponder what you said. Excellent points as always.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 11:04 AM (WDjG6)

300 And the women will scream and cry and make TikToks; yet not one among them will consider how their behavior has made sexbots so appealing.
Posted by: The boohooin
=========
They will move to try to ban them.

Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 11:05 AM (WDjG6)

301 They will move to try to ban them.
Posted by: whig at October 06, 2025 11:05 AM (WDjG6)

There is a woman leading an organization doing just that.

Posted by: Willie Nailer at October 06, 2025 11:06 AM (EYmYM)

302 @ 268 They will see it as the birth of a new age... because AI will tell them that it was and people are currently being trained to accept whatever AI says as being correct.

Same sort of people who believe whatever the TV tells them or the white coats tell them or the TikToks tell them. No consciousness, no thought, no will of their own.
_______________________________________

"Turn and face the ViewScreen, Winston!" … you know the source.

Posted by: Dr_No at October 06, 2025 11:07 AM (ayRl+)

303 Oof

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at October 06, 2025 11:34 AM (SLBv/)

304 This painting looks like a senior or even junior level class assignment at any good credentialed 4 year art school.

which is not a bad thing, since by that time most art students are very good, if not excellent, at their craft.

If I were this artist's professor, the critique I would offer is: the hand on right side of canvas isn't finished, her body doesn't look as though it is actually resting on the chair, not enough play between light and shadow, resulting in drapery and overall muddiness of the piece. The elongation of the skull...why? Was her hair teased up like that? possible

Posted by: kallisto at October 06, 2025 11:59 AM (dCxaZ)

305 It's a good painting. The rendering of the woman's face, hair, and posture all communicate her mood. Also, the brushwork is interesting as an abstract work in its own right.

The extreme foreshortening of the legs suggests that the artist was working from a photograph, rather than a live model.

Posted by: Nemo at October 06, 2025 12:35 PM (4RPgu)

306 Rosemary is pissed.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at October 06, 2025 02:14 PM (SRRAx)

307 Wow. Resting Bitch Entire Body!

Posted by: MartynWW at October 06, 2025 03:28 PM (s1DvK)

308 You promised you wouldn't do that in my mouth.

Posted by: Rosemary at October 06, 2025 04:19 PM (U3fVU)

309 When's the Pizza Guy going to get here?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 06, 2025 05:50 PM (wGqjj)

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